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Mar 16, 2018orange_lobster_23 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This story about a large multi-generational family whose disposition of the family is complicated both by interpersonal dynamics and the neighborhood decline due to white flight economic inequality, redlining, and fraudulent real estate/insurance practices which took hold from the 1960's and escalated in four subsequent decades. The setting for Turner House is ambiguous; but could be in any number of neighborhoods east of downtown and bordered by Eight Mile Road, on the north, and the Grosse Pointes to the east. While reading this; I imagined the similar neighborhood west of the Connor-Mack area where I once taught Head Start. Some of the dialogue and issues in the book are much like those shared by our Jefferson-Chalmers neighbors.